showkey equivalent on mac os x?

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showkey equivalent on mac os x?

I'm debugging an emacs keyboard binding on my mac (C-/ to undo, if you're curious), and I came across a suggestion on EmacsWiki that I could use "showkey" to find the scancode. But it looks like a GNU/Linux-only kinda thing. Didn't find it on MacPorts. Anyone know of an alternative or something I'm missing?

Showkey's home page is http://catb.org/esr/showkey/.

FYI, if you're using Terminal.app, there's something of a known issue that C-/ is broken and doesn't get sent through to underlying applications. iTerm.app doesn't have that issue.

durin42 2010-08-12 01:28:19

thanks, that saves me a lot of trouble trying to make it work. i'll give iTerm a whirl. wish i could have checked both answers here...

philo 2010-08-12 21:05:15

Key Codes may be what you're looking for generally, even if you're out of luck with C-/.

The emacs-app port works well if you need to escape from Terminal.app

0x4b 2010-08-12 02:14:24

thanks. yeah, that's what i was looking for. might try durin's suggestion and try out iTerm before i give up on terminals completely. i just can't quite get used to emacs without a terminal.

philo 2010-08-12 21:04:18

Well, you can always put the terminal inside emacs.

0x4b 2010-08-13 16:12:02

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